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USC Historian Nominated For Emmy Award

Carter was nominated as a researcher, along with producers Paul Steklar and Sandra Guardado, in the Outstanding Individual Achievement in a Craft category for his role in PBS' "George Wallace: Settin' the Woods on Fire," part of the network's The American Experience. The other nominees in the category include researchers for CBS Evening News, HBO, Dateline NBC, Cinemax Reel Life.

"George Wallace: Settin' the Woods on Fire," selected by the Writers Guild of America for the best documentary of the year 200, also garnered an Emmy nomination for best documentary script writing. The documentary was based on Carter's biography, "Politics of Rage: George Wallace, the Origins of the New Conservatism and the Transformation of American Politics" (1995).

A second honor for Carter among this year's Emmy Awards is the PBS documentary, "Scottsboro: An American Tragedy," nominated for best documentary. The film, inspired by Carter's book "Scottsboro: A Tragedy of the American South" (1969), details a dramatic 1931 legal battle that divided the nation along racial, political, and geographic lines. Carter was instrumental in the production of the PBS documentary.

The 22^nd Annual News and Documentary Emmy Awards ceremony is scheduled for September 5.

One of the nation's most celebrated U.S. and Southern historians, Carter, a USC alumnus, joined USC's history faculty in 2000. He previously taught at Emory University.